15th Minnesota Hope & Hearts Run/Walk - VIRTUAL Event

Thank you everyone for your participation and support of the 15th Hope & Hearts event! 

If you missed the live streamed broadcast of our Awards and Commemoration Ceremony, you can still watch it on our Facebook page here.

We hope to be back together in person next year at the 16th Hope & Hearts Run/Walk!

If you have used Qgiv in the past, you can sign-in to your account or create a new account and then you can register and start creating your team page and begin raising funds for a great cause.

New to Hope & Hearts? Here's some helpful event info!

This is a memorial event and fundraiser for Missing GRACE. Bereaved parents can share the story of their baby or child by creating a Team Page through this site. They can then share their page to help raise awareness about pregnancy and infant loss and raise the funds through their page to support the mission of Missing GRACE Foundation.

With your help, this annual fundraiser raises the funding needed for the Foundation to provide free support and resources for bereaved, infertile, and adoptive families in Minnesota and across the nation!!

Together through this event we are...

“Remembering & Saving Lives of Babies.”

 

Ways to Give & Get Involved:

Register 

Donate 

Sponsor 

Volunteer

Invite others

* Share the event flyer

Thank you for joining us on our special day!

Run. Walk.

Give Families Hope!

About the Organization

Missing GRACE Foundation’s mission is to provide support, resources and education for families and professional care providers when there is loss of a baby, infertility or adoption challenges. We offer hope and healing opportunities to G.R.A.C.E. – Grieve, Restore, Arise, Commemorate and Educate.

Missing GRACE Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit public charity and the EIN is 56-2593479

For more info visit www.MissingGRACE.org

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Event Information

Registration for the 2020 event is closed! The 15th Annual Hope & Hearts event went well. We managed to pull off our first virtual event! We are so grateful for our wonderful teams, donors and sponsors! Thanks everyone for honoring the lives of our babies and helping raise funds for Missing GRACE to continue our mission! See you next year!

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This  is a Virtual event and you create your own 5K or distance challenge to complete during event week! You can run, walk, bike, swim, rollerblade, or do any physical challenge you want to do! You can be at home on the treadmill, at a local trail, with your fur buddies or with your teammates.

Do your 5K or other physical challenge between September 12th and September 18th. You can even spread it out over a few days. Strive towards your distance goal and fundraising goals along with us! Just complete the total distance, log your distances and share with your network that you are exercising for a good cause. Walkers and runners will be eligible for a distance finishing medal for the top longest distances completed by a runner and a walker during event week (Sept. 12th to 18th). Instructions will be provided for how to enter and show your distance totals.

On Saturday, September 19th at 3:00 pm (CST) we will live stream the Awards and Commemoration Ceremony


REGISTRATION OPTIONS

$25 Adults (18+) Packet mailed w/T-shirt

$15 Children - Packet mailed w/T-shirt

$15 Participant (Adult or Child) - No Packet/ No T-shirt. *Choose either "Fundraising" or "Not Fundraising"

Packet Includes:

  • Personalized Event T-Shirt

  • Race bib and safety pins

  • HeART Work memorial craft

  • Sponsor items

*T-shirt information

One event T-shirt is provided with each paid registration that is completed by the cutoff date on Saturday, August 22nd, 2020

After the 22nd, the $15 Participant regisration will be the only registration option available.

*If you choose to register as a fundraiser, then you will receive a free user account where you can personalize your Team Page with your story and share the link to your page. You will have full access to modify and update your Team page. 

Have you seen our Team Leaderboard?  Take some time to visit each team page and read the stories and view the photos and videos about the babies and children being remembered through this event.

If you haven't created a Team Page to help fundraise and raise awareness, it's easy to do and will just take about 5 to 10 minutes to set up your page. Let others know about the baby you will always remember and hold in your heart. Share your story and enlist the support of your friends and family. Your user account has video tutorials to help you with your page and there's also great customer support. There are email templates to help you reach out to your friends and family and your account can link to your social media accounts if you would like it to. You can add photos and video to your Team page also!

HeART Work

HeART Work is a memorial craft activity for our Hope & Hearts families.  This year we will be mailing the craft with the Packet. You must register by August 22nd to receive a HeART Work craft. 

 

 
 

Awards & Prizes

1. 1st Place Team Fundraiser
2. 2nd Place Team Fundraiser
3. 3rd Place Team Fundraiser
4. Youngest Top Fundraiser

5. Longest Distance Runner
6. Longest Distance Walker

*Top Team Fundraiser winners are determined by the totals listed on the Leaderboard on this site. on Friday, September 18th at 11:00PM Central Time. Both online and offline totals that the Team Captain has entered on their page are honored.

Youth 17 and younger must register with Missing GRACE by calling 763-497-0709 and have a parent or guardian help to set up their Fundraising page here on QGiv in order to qualify for the prizes.

Runners and Walkers must email their distance results by September 18th at 11:00 PM Central Time.
 

When you donate to sponsor a Team or Individual that is walking or running at a Hope & Hearts event, you help Missing GRACE Foundation in continuing to fulfill its mission to serve grieving, infertile and adoptive families in need of support and resources.

 

Team Captain Reception

We transitioned to a virtual event this year due to Covid-19 park restrictions (only 25 total people are allowed at an event in the park).

We hope however, to still meet with a smaller group of just our Team Captains on Saturday, September 19th in the evening for a special dessert reception and candle lighting in memory of our babies in heaven.

Location and reception details will be posted by September 1st.